One last point: There are no messages at all coming through my
var/log/messages file, aside from the lpd start/stop messages that I get
whenever I try changing a setting.
Richard Crawford wrote:
> Whoops. Sorry about that. I thought I'd sent out another e-mail
> earlier with much more information, but I never got a response. I guess
> it didn't get through. Heh.
>
> Okay, here's the scoop.
>
> I picked up an Epson Stylus Photo 820 printer. I picked up this one
> because we need a photo-quality printer, and my research at
> www.linuxprinting.org and other places indicated that this printer both
> plays nice in a network environment like mine (where we have two win98
> machines, a win2k machine, and my occasional Linux box). The printer is
> hooked up to one of our windows 98 computers, and is shared out
> properly. My wife's Windows 98 computer can print to it perfectly, and
> so can I as long as I'm logged in to Windows 2000.
>
> When I'm logged in to Linux, though, it's a different story.
>
> I have used printconf-gui to set up the printer on my computer. I
> selected Windows printer (SMB printer); I entered the name of the
> computer and the name of the printer share (e.g.,
> //CRAPPYWINBOX/STUPID_PRINTER)... Since this is Windows 98 which doesn't
> worry about permissions, I have left the username and password fields
> blank. For host IP address, I've tried the IP address of the hosting
> computer, the name of the computer, and leaving it blank.
>
> I've selected the appropriate driver.
>
> But when I try printing from Linux, what happens is this: it feeds one
> page through all the way, and then it feeds a second page halfway from
> the stack into the printer... and then stops. At this point, I end up
> having to press the form-feed button on the printer, and then turning
> the printer off and on to clear out its cache (spool, whatever). When I
> keep an eye on the printer monitor on the hosting win98 computer,
> nothing shows up.
>
> I've looked at linuxdoc.org, linuxprinting.org, and comp.os.linux.redhat
> for support, but haven't found anything relevant.
>
> I'm using Red Hat 7.2.
>
> I think that's all of the relevant information. Let me know if you need
> more.
>
>
>
> Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
>> begin Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil@dcn.davis.ca.us>
>>
>>> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> After two days of fussing with my printer, which prints fine when
>>>> it's attached directly to my Linux box but not when it's attached to
>>>> the Windows98 box, I'm still no closer to a solution. Could it be a
>>>> firewall issue? A Samba issue? A windows permission issue? A
>>>> voodoo curse placed upon me by a vengeful player from one of my old
>>>> D&D games?
>>>>
>>>> If *anyone* has *any* thoughts at all, please let me know. Thanks!
>>>>
>>> The lack of detail on what you have tried leaves me wondering whether
>>> your linux box is speaking "printerspeak" yet.
>>>
>>
>> lol. brutal but true. i have to admit, i deleted the msg without
>> responding because there was so little detail, i didn't even know where
>> to begin other than to say "what do your logs say", and i don't want to
>> sound like the broken log record... :)
>>
>>
>> pete
>>
>>
>
>
>
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